BusyContacts
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Powerful Contact Manager

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Description

BusyContacts is a contact manager for OS X that makes creating, finding, and managing contacts faster and more efficient.

BusyContacts brings to contact management the same power, flexibility, and sharing capabilities that BusyCal users have enjoyed with their calendars. What's more, BusyContacts integrates seamlessly with BusyCal forming a flexible, easy to use CRM solution that works the way you do.

BusyContacts syncs with the built-in Contacts app on OS X and iOS and supports all leading cloud services, including iCloud, Google, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS

Contacts can be displayed in two views: A single column list view, or a multi-column table view that allows you to control the columns displayed (e.g. company, last name, first name, email, phone, etc.) and the sort order.

TAGS

Tags are an extremely flexible way to manage contacts in BusyContacts. You can assign multiple tags to each contact and a tag cloud allows you to easily filter the list of contacts by tag (e.g. family, client, prospect, coworker, etc.).

ACTIVITY LIST

The Activity List shows a chronological listing of activities associated with the selected contact including meetings, to dos and other calendar events, communication through email and messaging, and social network posts.

BUSYCAL INTEGRATION

BusyContacts integrates with BusyCal allowing you to link contacts to events and to dos in your calendar, providing flexible CRM capabilities for scheduling meetings, follow up tasks, and tracking past activities.

SOCIAL NETWORK INTEGRATION

BusyContacts syncs with leading social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, allowing you to integrate photos, birthdays and other information from social networks with your contacts.

SMART FILTERS

Smart Filters are a powerful tool for filtering contacts and creating saved searches that can be applied with a single click. You can create Smart Filters to display contacts that match certain conditions, such as a text string, tag, or birthdate. Or you can create Smart Filters to remember view settings such as columns displayed and sort order.

SYNC

BusyContacts syncs with all leading cloud services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, and other CardDAV servers, and syncs with the built-in Contacts app on OS X and iOS.

SHARE

BusyContacts allows you to share address books with other BusyContacts users with read-only or read/write privileges. Address Books can be shared through Exchange, Fruux, Kerio, over the LAN, and through other CardDAV servers that support sharing.

What’s New

Version History

1.3.1

Nov 18, 2018

* Improved exchange authentication process* Improvements to auto-linking contacts across different services* Advanced connection options now available for Exchange / CardDAV when adding new accounts* Fixed a bug that would at times cause the currently highlighted contact to lose selection * Fixed selection of previously selected contacts after a quit & relaunch* Fixed selection of contacts with a lot of notes causing the profile photo to scroll out of view* Includes fixes for changes made to iCloud's CardDAV servers recently* Ongoing stability improvements

1.3.0

Oct 18, 2018

* Dark Mode for macOS Mojave (10.14)* Improvements to auto-discovery of CalDAV / Exchange accounts* Fixed duplicate / delete card menu options at times become unavailable* Fixed an auto-save bug where changes to notes would at times sync with a delay* Fixed a bug where moving a contact between address books would duplicate the card on IceWarp servers * Fixed an glitch where making modifications to notes after performing a search would retain the highlighted words* System support for LinkedIn and Facebook was removed in macOS 10.14. BusyContacts relied on OS support, and so these services are no longer available starting 10.14* The main contact list now shows longer names in full when possible* Ongoing stability improvements

1.2.17

Sep 28, 2018

* Fix for Google's recent changes to their backend, causing crashes upon launch* macOS Mojave compatibility fixes (Dark mode support will come later)* Improvements to handling Google account keychain authentication errors* Improved handling of duplicate and conflicting responses from some CardDAV servers* Fixed an issue where the editor would lose selection of the currently edited contact in case a change wasn't part of the currently applicable filter* Fixed activity panel not showing emails / messages on macOS Mojave* Ability to change the update frequency from Preferences > Updates* Ongoing stability improvements

1.2.15

Jul 24, 2018

• Improved push sync detection for iCloud accounts before falling back to 15-minutes sync• Fixed a bug where events interrupted while syncing with exchange would at times report unknown errors• Fixed an important issue where certain timezones would not get translated correctly when fetching events from Exchange• Fixed an issue where smart apostrophes would prevent BusyCal from looking up a contact• Ongoing stability improvements

1.2.14

Jul 2, 2018

• Fixed a bug where the app would hang when switching between smart filters• Fixed a bug where certain rich text characters in notes would prevent them from showing fully• Fixed a crash when undoing in notes• Fixed an issue that would prevent some users from downloading updates from within the app (you will still need to download the update manually one last time)• Performance improvements• Ongoing stability improvements

1.2.13

May 17, 2018

• Fixed a bug where the app would hang when switching between smart filters• Performance improvements• Ongoing stability improvements

1.2.12

May 13, 2018

• Performance improvements• Fixed an issue where the currently edited contact would at times lose selection• Ongoing stability improvements

1.1.1

* Improved exchange authentication process* Improvements to auto-linking contacts across different services* Advanced connection options now available for Exchange / CardDAV when adding new accounts* Fixed a bug that would at times cause the currently highlighted contact to lose selection * Fixed selection of previously selected contacts after a quit & relaunch* Fixed selection of contacts with a lot of notes causing the profile photo to scroll out of view* Includes fixes for changes made to iCloud's CardDAV servers recently* Ongoing stability improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

29 Ratings

29 Ratings

NeoMacMan
,10/09/2017

The personal information manager I had been looking for

BusyContacts and BusyCal form an impressive duo in how they work together (and share data with Apple’s built-in applications). I just switched from a PC, where I had been managing contacts using Outlook 2010. I had been reluctant to switch over to a Mac, despite my wife’s cajoling me that “it just works,” because the Mac version of Outlook does not even let you see all the e-mail associated with a contact. BusyContacts does. Through its integration with BusyCal, you can see past and future activities instantly and elegantly on one screen. Spending just a few minutes with this software put my concerns to rest, and convinced me that real contact management is possible without subscribing to some overloaded CRM service.

NeoMacMan
,10/09/2017

The personal information manager I had been looking for

BusyContacts and BusyCal form an impressive duo in how they work together (and share data with Apple’s built-in applications). I just switched from a PC, where I had been managing contacts using Outlook 2010. I had been reluctant to switch over to a Mac, despite my wife’s cajoling me that “it just works,” because the Mac version of Outlook does not even let you see all the e-mail associated with a contact. BusyContacts does. Through its integration with BusyCal, you can see past and future activities instantly and elegantly on one screen. Spending just a few minutes with this software put my concerns to rest, and convinced me that real contact management is possible without subscribing to some overloaded CRM service.

Bruce in Louisville
,11/28/2017

Excellent contact management app

Looked for a long time for full-featured contact management app. As a journalist/publisher, contacts are critical to my work, and Busy Contacts fills the bill. I switched to iCloud contact syncing in order to remove some friction in my contact management, and this app fits right in. The fact that it also pulls data for the people I follow on Twitter, FB, and LinkedIn (to a point), and allows me to merge all of those along with the iCloud contacts, is the key feature I was looking for.

I haven’t used the Activity feature, but may try to incorporate that as well. The ability to send email, including CC and BCC, to a tagged group is a great time-saver.

I wish it was better integrated with the Airmail app I use for email. (Airmail keeps its own contacts as well as using what’s on the machine, and sometimes they are not in sync.)

To this point, I have not fully explored all the features of Busy Contacts; if I do, I may need to give it six stars. <g>

Bruce in Louisville
,11/28/2017

Excellent contact management app

Looked for a long time for full-featured contact management app. As a journalist/publisher, contacts are critical to my work, and Busy Contacts fills the bill. I switched to iCloud contact syncing in order to remove some friction in my contact management, and this app fits right in. The fact that it also pulls data for the people I follow on Twitter, FB, and LinkedIn (to a point), and allows me to merge all of those along with the iCloud contacts, is the key feature I was looking for.

I haven’t used the Activity feature, but may try to incorporate that as well. The ability to send email, including CC and BCC, to a tagged group is a great time-saver.

I wish it was better integrated with the Airmail app I use for email. (Airmail keeps its own contacts as well as using what’s on the machine, and sometimes they are not in sync.)

To this point, I have not fully explored all the features of Busy Contacts; if I do, I may need to give it six stars. <g>

Colorado diva
,12/31/2017

Finally a CRM that integrates perfectly with Exchange

I host all my contacts on an Exchange server. I have around 2,000 contacts and the program that came with the Mac would crash all the time. It also wasn’t very robust in that I couldn’t categorize my clients other than putting them in groups, without any color coding.

With Busy contacts, I have all my contacts tagged with color codes, the program pulls in all the emails and messages I have sent them ever, and I can easily create new meetings and events. I love this program. And no crashing - yet.

Colorado diva
,12/31/2017

Finally a CRM that integrates perfectly with Exchange

I host all my contacts on an Exchange server. I have around 2,000 contacts and the program that came with the Mac would crash all the time. It also wasn’t very robust in that I couldn’t categorize my clients other than putting them in groups, without any color coding.

With Busy contacts, I have all my contacts tagged with color codes, the program pulls in all the emails and messages I have sent them ever, and I can easily create new meetings and events. I love this program. And no crashing - yet.